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dot·age
\ˈdōd.]ij, -ōt], ]ēj\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from doten to dote + -age
1.
a. : feebleness or impairment of understanding and reason : mental infirmity
< I may venture to assert, without exposing myself to the charge of dotage — William Cowper >
b. : advanced age attended by enfeebled mentality and childishness — called also second childhood
2. : an utterance or a work showing a writer's or artist's feebleness of mind or execution from old age
< more important than Galsworthy's increasingly desiccated social propanganda and the dotages of Bernard Shaw — F.B.Millett >
3. archaic
a. : a weak and foolish or silly doting : a blind fondness or affection
b. : the object of such fondness or affection |